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Hong Kong Case Law

Occupational control
  • 15 Apr 1986

    CHAN YIN PAN V. EASTERN TIME LIMITED AND OTHERS

    Citation
    CHAN YIN PAN V. EASTERN TIME LIMITED AND OTHERS
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA7922/1982

    Li Fung created the dangerous situation by illegally storing toluene in a communal toilet and breached statutory and common law duties and is liable in negligence to both the plaintiff and the deceased's estate; Wah Yip was not liable because it did not create nor know of the danger and took reasonable steps; Eastern Time owed a duty to its employee and breached it by failing to communicate warnings so is liable to the plaintiff but, lacking control and lacking knowledge of the specific combined risk (flood plus uncapped thinner tins), is not liable to the deceased's estate; apportionment bet…